How Did The 1960s Influence American Society In The Late 1960s

American society today has been shaped by years past. After the Second World War, U.S. inhabitants dedicated their lives and time to shape and improve America’s culture to the way it is today. Through the decades of the 1950s and today, the society has changed through scientific and technological advances. On the other hand, aspects of the culture have not changed because its citizens have yet to advance in those areas.

When most people think of the 1950’s or 1960’s, they think of Elvis, Greasers, jukeboxes, Woodstock, and rainbow peace signs and hippie love. Although these symbols are somewhat accurate (and very popular), not many people think about the changes society and culture went through. The 1950’s and 60’s were a time of great change and freedom for many Americans. Everything from World War II, to the gay liberation movement, to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped to change society. Many of the views American’s had on topics such as war, gender roles and sexual preference were changed greatly after these events and have led to our culture being what it is today. The 1950’s and 1960’s were a time where great changes took place that helped to

How have the 1960s dramatically impacted and influenced today’s society? In today’s society, there are many controversial topics that we are facing today; we have the 1960s to thank for those things. The sixties was one of the most impactful decades pertaining to culture revolutions; it is the decade that brought into play some of the problems and privileges that the present is dealing with now. The sixties brought the gay movement, women’s rights, the drug revolution, and has also impacted music as well.

The 1960’s and 70’s were filled with turbulent changes. The US was still reeling from containment and its domino policy, leading it to believe that it had the right to exercise influence in foreign affair. One foreign affair was known as Vietnam. The Vietnam War was the longest war in the nation’s history. This war, from both abroad and at home, drastically changed the society of America, socially, economically, and politically. It caused for much anti-war sentiment and fueled the counter culture movement, it caused inflation and contributed to the stagflation, and brought down Johnson’s reputation and caused for several changes in legislation.

Australian popular culture in the 1960s had multiple features, many of which were influenced by the social changes and counter culture at the time. The primary aspects of Australian popular culture in the 1960s were; music, fashion, film, sport and television.

The Sixties, by Terry H. Anderson, takes the reader on a journey through one of the most turbulent decades in American life. Beginning with the crew-cut conformity of 1950s Cold War culture and ending with the transition into the uneasy '70s, Anderson notes the rise of an idealistic generation of baby boomers, widespread social activism, and revolutionary counterculture. Anderson explores the rapidly shifting mood of the country with the optimism during the Kennedy years, the liberal advances of Johnson's "Great Society," and the growing conflict over Vietnam that nearly tore America apart. The book also navigates through different themes regarding the decade's different currents of social change; including the anti-war movement, the civil

The 1960s was a period of immense change in America. The decade brought about various social changes such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Liberation Movement. These movements would forever change the landscape of America. However, the discussion of the Vietnam War was never far from people’s minds. This war would serve as an introduction to what war was to the home front. It was in the homes of America where so many had been previously sheltered from the realities of war. During previous conflicts, there had been a military censorship on all media that pertained to war. This would not be the case in Vietnam, it would be completely uncensored. The ability for reporters to provide a commentary on the war without censorship would change the all-American, Captain America view that Americans had in previous wars. The lack of censorship would be a major factor in the overall soldier experience in the Vietnam war.

“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over”, this quote is by President Gerald Ford in addressing the nation in 1974. He is addressing the nation after President Nixon was impeached. This was not the only scandal plaguing the seventies. The seventies were full with right movements. Feminist revitalised their movements and gays truly started their movements. The seventies had a great impact on the lives of Americans. Major events impacted the lives of Americans in three major aspects, technical, political, and social.

There has been a great change since the 1960’s era with so much protest of being unfair to a certain race. Until the Vietnam war where more Americans were focused on protesting the war than on each other. Females also began to demand more rights for women during these years and social change in music was introduced differently than that of today. Politics were very violent during the 1960’s where famous leaders such as John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. People also dress different during the 1960’s than they do today with long hair in which they called themselves Hippies and wore unusual strange clothing in different fashions. With all these events happening in the 1960’s I believe that America was trying to find a way out from the hate and rejection to certain events that was taking place in order to shape America the way it should be for everyone.

“It was a decade of extremes, if transformational change and bizarre contrasts.” In the 1960s the hippies were well known to have peaceful protests. During the 1960s president John F. Kennedy was elected as president. The fight for civil rights. The baby boom happened in the 1960s. While most people would say that the vietnam war brought us many enemies. But the reality of the situation is that the U.S gained the Army of Republic of Vietnam as an ally.The 1960s is superior than modern day.

I believe that there wouldn’t be just one person or event that would exemplify the changing US society of the 1960s on through the 1970s. There were multiple people, movements, perceptions and different problems that came with each event. The 1960s and 1970s was an era where sociologists were pushed and forced to face problems in those specific events and those problems became of interest to them to make a social change. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the people that was pushed into doing what he did. He saw his community and decided to do something about inequality, so he led the watershed moments in the civil rights movement. Another event that took place in this time was the Watergate scandal. This event causes commotion

There were many things going on during the 60’s like John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the Vietnam. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a fervent believer in containing communism. Kennedy made it clear that he would continue the policy of the former President, Dwight Eisenhower, and support the government of Diem in South Vietnam. Kennedy also made it plain that he supported the ‘Domino Theory’ and he was convinced that if South Vietnam fell to communism, then other states in the region would as a consequence. Kennedy received conflicting advice with regards to Vietnam. Charles De Gaulle warned Kennedy that Vietnam and warfare in Vietnam would trap America in a “bottomless military and political swamp". This was based on the experience the French had at Dien Bien Phu, which left a sizeable psychological scar of French foreign policy for some years. However, Kennedy had more daily contact with ‘hawks’ in Washington DC who believed that American forces would be far

The 1960s in the United States is evaluated as the period of revolutionary changes had occurred in art gallery movement. It’s because the increase of the middle class owing to the rapid growth and prosperity of American economy after 1960s, had impact to the formation of the art gallery. The scale of middle class had been expanded due to the economic growth, the baby boom and the mortality decline by the advance of medical science. The continuance of economic prosperity made their incomes increased. Most of them wished to be highly educated and started to spend their spare time with the hobby to appreciate the arts. Resulting from this, the new support class for the arts started to arise from the massive middle class centered (McKay, et al.,

Troops were sent in to Vietnam, to fight in the Vietnam war, (1955-1975) in spite of growing protests against the war effort – many thought the war was immoral and inhumane, against a third world country that posed no real threat to the US. This led to burgeoning disillusionment and the recognition that there was a suppression of participatory democracy throughout the country. This resulted in the realisation of the interconnections of the system in place; protests thus became broader, and questioned the entire structure of American capitalism and democracy, as something that was inadequate in meeting the needs of the people, and of being put in place to fulfil the private agendas of only an elite few. There was also a convergence of teen culture with Bohemian culture, which resulted in the adoption of the ideals and lifestyle of the same within the counterculture movement, as a response to the rigidity of

In the mid 1960s the United States involved itself in the conflict between Communist and anti-communist forces in the country of Vietnam. This involvement, although resulting in a humiliating defeat for the U.S, affected culture in ways both large and miniscule. These effects include influence on novels and films, changes in the conductivity of mass media, and a split of culture within the U.S.